B-Med Aware · Brand System · 2026

Still here. Still covered.

The brand system for trusted medical information — how B-Med Aware looks, sounds, and behaves across the platform, the product family, the scan view a stranger sees, and the rooms where schools, EMS, and investors decide to believe us. Intelligent by discipline. Alive by design.

Document
Brand Guidelines, v3.8
Supersedes
Identity boards, v1
Audience
Internal · enact · Build partners
Status
Active
Contents
01 · The Positioning

The platform behind the products your family will ever need.

B-Med Aware is the consent-first sharing layer for family medical information — the platform that moves the right information to the right person in the right second, and to no one else, ever. Starting with Wren, for families with medically complex kids. Two rooms under one roof: an institutional platform that schools, EMS, and investors believe, and consumer brands a parent falls in love with — both telling the same story about sharing done right.

“A small thing on your kid’s backpack that knows everything the people around her need to know.”

The Brand Sentence · Strategy Doc, Wk 02

The four truths we operate from.

Every external surface — scan view, pitch deck, partner briefing, onboarding screen — should reinforce these four ideas. They are the brand.

01
Warmth in the products. Proof in the platform.

The platform speaks to institutions in Deep Blue: specific, confident, plain, quiet. The products speak to the people doing the caring. Two registers, one type system, zero confusion about which room you’re in.

02
The scan view is sacred

Everything we make exists so that one page loads in two seconds and gets believed by a stranger with shaking hands. No surface outranks it. No brand flourish survives contact with it.

03
Trust is accumulated, not claimed

Our moat is FARE moms, JDRF parents, school nurses, and the caregiver circles around each kid. The brand behaves accordingly: it earns, it verifies, it never overstates. “Verified by” beats “trusted by” every time.

04
Sharing is a promise, not a pipe

Data moves only inside a circle the family drew. We are not interoperability for its own sake; we are the promise that what needs to travel, travels — and what doesn’t, never will.

The sharing doctrine.

Every time the company describes sharing — in a deck, a push notification, a scan view footer — the sentence must carry at least one of these four properties in the same breath. Sharing never floats free.

Consented

Nothing moves without the family’s deliberate yes. The parent draws the circle; we enforce its edge.

Scoped

Each person sees exactly their slice — viewer or editor, this kid, nothing else. Access is a role, not a door.

Visible

Every access is an event the family can see. Scan history, caregiver views, the verification strip: sharing you can audit.

Revocable

One tap removes anyone, instantly, everywhere. A promise you can’t take back was never a promise.

02 · The Voice

Warm first. Exact always.

B-Med Aware speaks like a brilliant family friend who happens to be a nurse — and underneath every sentence, it is always talking about one thing: sharing. Who sees what, why that’s safe, and who’s in control. Two rooms, two dialects of the same doctrine: specific, confident, plain, quiet.

Room one · The kitchen table

To the people doing the caring.

Parents, caregivers, the circle around each profile. Second person, present tense, short sentences. Reassurance through specificity, never through superlatives.

“You decide who sees Eli’s information. They see it in two seconds. No one else ever does.”
Room two · The district office

To the institutions that decide.

Schools, EMS systems, public health, investors. Declarative, evidenced, unhurried. We describe infrastructure; we don’t pitch an app.

“Consent-scoped sharing between families and responders — verified by the family, visible to them on every access.”

The third register: the scan view.

A stranger, an emergency, one thumb. On the scan view the brand voice all but disappears: imperative fragments, no warmth, no marketing, no “we.” The kindest thing this page can do is be instantly actionable.

Never on the scan view

Welcome! Eli’s family uses B-Med Aware to keep his care circle informed. Here’s what you should probably know about him…

Always on the scan view

Severe allergy: peanut. EpiPen — front backpack pocket, right thigh, hold 3 seconds. Call Sarah (Mom).

Before & after.

Before · Generic SaaS

Our innovative platform leverages QR technology to empower families with seamless, real-time access to critical health data.

After · B-Med Aware

A tag on a backpack. A page that loads in two seconds. A text that says someone found her.

Before · Scare tactic

Every 3 minutes, a child is rushed to the ER. Would a stranger know how to save YOUR child?

After · B-Med Aware

Someone just viewed Eli’s profile. That’s the tag doing its job.

The sharing lexicon.

“Data” is a district-office word; at the kitchen table it is always “[name]’s information.” “Sharing” never appears without a person or a control attached. These pairs are binding.

Never

Your child’s health data is securely stored in the cloud and shared with authorized stakeholders.

Say

Eli’s information lives with you — and the five people you chose. Nobody else, ever.

Never

A HIPAA-adjacent, QR-enabled health data exchange platform delivering seamless interoperability.

Say · institutional

Consent-scoped sharing with no integration to build: the family verifies, the responder scans, every access is logged.

Never

Share your child’s medical data with teachers, coaches, and caregivers!

Say · consumer

Choose who’s in Eli’s circle. Change your mind anytime — one tap, they’re out, everywhere.

Specific

“Loads in under two seconds” beats “lightning-fast.” Numbers, names, and places over adjectives.

Confident

No hedging, no exclamation marks. We state; we don’t plead. Confidence is quiet.

Plain

Explain complex things simply. If a stressed eighth-grade reader can’t parse it, rewrite it.

Quiet

We honor the seriousness of every situation. No hype, no fear, no cuteness near an emergency.

03 · The Identity Mark

The hyphen became a cross.

The mark isn’t beside the name — it comes out of it. The hyphen in B-Med Aware is drawn as a dual-radius cross with a circular void at its heart: the one clinical symbol we keep, made human, holding the kid at its center. Beneath it runs the pulse line — the system’s thread, breaking into a heartbeat exactly once per surface, because care is continuous.

BMed Aware

Construction: two radii and a void.

The cross is drawn, not typed. Eight outer tips carry a generous radius (31% of arm width); the four inner joints take a tight fillet (19%) — the dual-radius move that separates a mark from a font glyph. Arms sit at an optical 32.5% of the height, not the geometric third. And at the center, a circular counter at 52% of arm width: the void is the kid — the same dot that anchors the registration heritage and holds the center of the care circle, carried here as negative space. One atom, three devices.

16 24 48 The counter holds to 16px · below that, use nothing

The pulse line.

A 2.5px line in Vital — monitor green, softly glowing on dark surfaces. It travels flat, breaks into one heartbeat, and returns flat. One pulse per surface; the second heartbeat is decoration, and decoration is how trust dies. On the scan view, the pulse sits directly beneath the name it protects — the one alive thing on an otherwise still page.

Clearspace

Keep clear space around the lockup equal to the height of the cross on all sides. Nothing enters it — not even the pulse.

Minimum sizes

Lockup: 110px wide on screen, 28mm in print. Standalone cross: 14px / 4mm. Below that, use nothing.

Never

Never recolor the cross outside the palette, rotate it, fill the counter, or restore a plain hyphen. Never place the lockup on the Daylight gradient or on photography. Below 16px, the counter closes — so below 16px, use nothing.

04 · The Color System

One temperature. One heartbeat.

Deep Blue and Ink were always cool — the original spec names Ink’s cool undertone. The old warm neutrals never matched them; Vital exposed the seam. v3 unifies the system at one temperature: Cloud, Mist, and Slate replace the parchment tones, giving the anchors the clinical daylight they were always waiting for. This is the one change that needs a countersign; everything it touches gets calmer and more credible.

Cloud
COPIED ✓
Default surface · clinical daylight
#F5F8F9
RGB 245 · 248 · 249
Mist
COPIED ✓
Soft separator · cool
#E3EAEE
RGB 227 · 234 · 238
Slate
COPIED ✓
Quiet text · data captions
#8FA0AC
RGB 143 · 160 · 172
Deep Blue
COPIED ✓
Institutional anchor
#1E3A52
RGB 30 · 58 · 82
Ink
COPIED ✓
Headlines · text
#0F1F2C
RGB 15 · 31 · 44
Vital #2EE6A8 · The addition · <2%

The signal color — ECG green, the one color every human already reads as “alive and okay.” It draws the pulse line, marks live status, and lights one data point per Depth surface. It is never text on light backgrounds, never a fill larger than a pill, and never appears twice on one screen. Deep Blue is what we say; Vital is proof of life. And Vital belongs to the platform alone — inside the products, the same heartbeat is drawn in light: Cloud on dark surfaces, the signature anchor on light ones. The machine room sees monitor green; a family sees light.

Use ratio · approximate
55
20
18
6
55%
Cloud
The room. Default page and card backgrounds. Never stark white, never gray.
20%
Mist · Slate
Separation and secondary text. Mist replaces border lines; Slate whispers metadata.
18%
Deep Blue
Where the brand acts: the cross, the pulse, buttons, one italic word, Depth panels.
6%
Ink
Every headline and body letter. Depth’s dark floor. Never pure black.
<2%
Vital
The pulse, live status, one lit data point on Depth. The system’s proof of life.
<1%
Alert
#B3261E — functional, outside the brand palette. Life-threatening information only.

The four approved atmospheres.

Soft gradients are how the system earns depth without breaking its promise of calm — two dark, two light, all mixed from the palette. Four surfaces are sanctioned. A fifth is not a variation; it’s a redesign, and it needs a signature.

Medical information.
Real impact.
Depth

The weight-bearing surface: deck covers, marketing heroes, partner one-pagers, the dark room of the voice. Always carries Cloud type; always leaves room to breathe.

linear-gradient(150deg, #1E3A52 0%, #0F1F2C 100%)
Depth · Live

Depth carrying the Vital trace — the monitor in a dark room. For the guidelines hero, product dashboards’ night surfaces, and the one slide in the deck where the numbers breathe.

Depth + radial vital glow at 85% / −5% · pulse in #2EE6A8
Ambient

The light room’s soft system: white settling into Mist with a barely-there Vital trace at one edge. Content sections, nav surfaces, table containers — atmosphere you feel rather than see.

linear(#FFFFFF → #EAF1F4) + radial vital trace at 7%
Daylight

The photography treatment: Deep Blue shadows lifting into cool Mist highlights over every image. It makes a photo ours before the eye reads a word. Never used without a photo beneath it.

linear-gradient(155deg, rgba(30,58,82,.92), rgba(30,58,82,.5) 46%, rgba(236,230,216,.45))

A note on restraint.

Gradients never sit behind body text and never appear on the scan view — emergencies get flat Cloud, Ink type, full contrast, zero atmosphere. Angles are fixed at 150°–155°. And Vital obeys the strictest budget in the system: one Vital moment per surface, maximum. On light backgrounds it is a line or a pill, never type (contrast fails at ~1.9:1). On Depth it glows — that’s where it lives. If two Vital elements compete, one is wrong.

05 · The Typography

A serif with newsroom bones.

Three faces, three jobs. Newsreader carries the emotional and institutional moments — editorial, credible, quietly beautiful at optical display sizes. Inter carries the interface, invisible on purpose. JetBrains Mono is the system’s voice: timestamps, tokens, verification. Inter and JetBrains Mono are unchanged from the locked system; Newsreader replaces Fraunces at the display level.

The people who love you should never have to guess.
Display · Newsreader
Medical info you trust, at optical size 72.
Headlines, the kid’s name on the scan view, deck covers, pull quotes. Weight 400–500. Letter-spacing −1.5% to −2%. One Deep Blue italic word per headline, maximum.
Body · Inter
B-Med Aware is the trusted platform behind the products that travel with the people you love. Built for schools, EMS, and the parents who care most. Inter does this work without asking to be noticed.
Interface, forms, body copy, buttons. Weights 400 / 500 / 600 only. Never in italics — italic belongs to the serif.
System · JetBrains Mono
VERIFIED BY PARENT
UPDATED 2026-07-18 · REV 14
TOKEN 8F3K2Q
Verification strips, timestamps, tokens, labels at +14–16% tracking. The mono is the audit trail speaking — it appears wherever trust is being proven, and nowhere else.

The scale.

Display · 56–84px · NR 500
She’s covered.
Headline · 29–36px · NR 500
Every scan tells you she was found.
Body · 14.5–16px · Inter 400
Enter what a stranger would need to know. It takes about four minutes, and you can change anything later — edits go live in seconds.
Label · 10.5px · JBM +16%
Scan history · Last 30 days

One system, three registers.

The family never adds typefaces — differentiation comes from the mix, not the menu. The register dial sets how serif-forward a surface runs. Same instruments, different arrangement, unmistakably one company.

Consumer · serif-forward · Wren, Iris, Atlas marketing
She’s covered, everywhere she goes.
Newsreader leads; italics carry the feeling. Inter supports. The love-brand register.
Institutional · balanced · B-Med Aware platform
The verified layer.
Schools scan it. EMS trusts it. One serif moment; Inter does the arguing.
Serif for the thesis, Inter for the evidence, mono for the proof.
Product UI · Inter-forward · app surfaces
Eli’s profile
2 daily medications · 3 contacts
Updated 2 days ago
Interface stays invisible. The serif appears once — the name — and steps aside.
06 · In Application

Three surfaces, three registers.

The same system doing three different jobs: the sacred scan view (flat Cloud, full contrast, zero atmosphere), the printed tag a parent laminates, and the Depth cover an investor opens. If these three feel like one company in three rooms, the system is working.

The scan view · flat · sacred
Eli, 7
Severe allergy — peanut. EpiPen in front backpack pocket.
ConditionsAsthma, mild
Daily medsCetirizine 5mg, morning
Call Sarah — Mom
VERIFIED BY SARAH · 2 DAYS AGO
The printed tag
Eli
Scan for Eli’s medical information
The investor cover · Depth
B-Med Aware
The infrastructure of trust behind a family of products.
Series Seed · 2026 · Confidential
07 · The Design System

Components, at the joints.

Where the brand becomes the product. Built once, reused across the parent app, the scan view, the marketing site, and the admin dashboard. Same five colors. Same three faces. Same restraint.

01
Mist before borders

Surface separation is done with Mist bands and 1px hairlines in rgba(15,31,44,0.09). Shadows exist only on true overlays — modals, menus, the phone mockups in decks. Cards do not float.

02
The serif is a moment

Newsreader appears once per screen as the emotional center — the name, the headline, the number that matters. Twice is noise. Everything else is Inter doing quiet work.

03
Mono means proof

JetBrains Mono appears wherever trust is being demonstrated — verification strips, timestamps, tokens — and nowhere else. If it’s in mono, a parent can rely on it.

The component library.

Eight groups cover ~95% of what B-Med Aware ships. Each specifies the rule, not just the look.

Buttons & CTAs
Pill-shaped, Deep Blue primary. One primary action per screen; the second CTA goes quiet.
radius 999px · padding 11×20px · Inter 600 · min tap target 48px on mobile
On-dark actions
On Depth surfaces the primary flips to Cloud, and the hero number takes Vital with a soft glow — the surface’s single Vital moment.
Request the deck
4M
US kids · serious chronic conditions
big number: Newsreader 500 · 64–104px · Vital + 22px glow on Depth only · label mono +16%
Status pills
Mono, tracked, uppercase. A live scan earns Vital — the only Vital moment its screen gets. Verified is Deep Blue; staleness warns in amber at 90+ days, never publicly.
Scanned now Verified Still accurate? Viewer Severe allergy
9.5px · +14% tracking · JBM 500 · 5×12px padding · radius 999px
The verification strip
The signature component. Who confirmed this information, and when. Appears on every profile surface, public and private.
VERIFIEDBY PARENT48H AGOREV 14
JBM 11px · segments divided by hairlines · first cell always Deep Blue
The alert banner
The only red in the system. Life-threatening information, first position on the scan view, visible without scrolling.
Anaphylaxis risk — peanut
EpiPen: front backpack pocket. Right thigh. Hold 3 seconds.
4px left rule #B3261E · tint bg #F7E9E7 · icon + text, never color alone
Form fields
One thought per screen in onboarding. Focus ring is Deep Blue at 14% — visible, calm, WCAG-friendly.
Eli
Only the first name ever appears publicly.
radius 10px · padding 12×14px · focus: border Deep Blue + 3px ring rgba(30,58,82,.14)
Caregiver chips
The circle around each kid. Initials, name, role in mono. Revocation lives one tap behind the chip, never on it.
MPMrs. ParkViewer RTGrandma RuthEditor
radius 999px · avatar 26px Mist · role in JBM 9px +12%
Tap-to-call
On the scan view, contacts are buttons, not text. Full-width, thumb-sized, named by relationship first.
height ≥48px · Deep Blue fill · relationship before name · tel: link, no confirmation step
08 · The Product Family

A family that rhymes, not repeats.

B-Med Aware is the platform; the products are who a person falls in love with. Every product inherits the system’s spine — neutrals, type, cross, and the Vital heartbeat — and expresses itself through exactly two things: one signature hour and one drawn mark. That’s the whole license.

B-Med Aware
The platform · institutional · Deep Blue
Product 01 · Live
Wren
Families with medically complex kids. Morning amber, and the bird on the tag.
Product 02 · Next
Iris
Caregivers of aging parents. Twilight violet, and the bloom.
Product 03 · Later
Atlas
Adults managing complex conditions. Midday cyan, and the compass.

The signatures: hours of the day, at anchor depth.

One signature per product, chosen as a system: each takes the sky of its life stage — morning, midday, twilight — deepened to the anchor register where Deep Blue lives. In this system only the heartbeat is bright; signatures are anchors, and anchors are deep. Every signature carries Cloud text and does exactly one job: the Deep Blue role, inside its own product.

One gradient formula, four skies: signature → Ink, 150°. Every brand’s hour fades into the same night, and the same pulse — drawn in light — glows on all of them.

The Family Depth Formula

The Family Ambient: the light counterpart.

Depth is where we prove; Ambient is where we invite. Each product’s daylight surface is its signature dissolved to 8–20% over Cloud, lit by one white radial — and in one corner, a whisper of a sibling signature at no more than 10%. The family, visible inside each product. Text on Ambient is always Ink; the drawn mark and the audience pill always attend; the signature never appears at full strength here — daylight is for the tint, Depth is for the anchor. Each card below is the complete product system in one artifact: Ambient body, hour and description, Depth strip with the pulse drawn in light, and the binding spec.

For a child
Wren
Morning · ember amber · #A2691C

The school-run sky, deepened to ember — warm enough for a love-brand, grounded enough to sit beside Deep Blue without shouting. Still the color of wren plumage; now the grown-up version.

Text: Cloud · Depth: #A2691C → Ink · Pulse: Cloud / sig on light · Never: warnings
For an aging parent
Iris
Twilight · dusk violet · #473D85

The evening hour of care, and the flower the product is named for — deepened past pastel into something dignified. Tender without apology; serious without coldness.

Text: Cloud · Depth: #473D85 → Ink · Pulse: Cloud / sig on light · Never: body text
For yourself
Atlas
Midday · harbor cyan · #1F6E85

Noon over deep water — independence with gravity. Greener and brighter-hued than Deep Blue, deeper than any app teal; distinct from Vital by hue and from Alert by everything.

Text: Cloud · Depth: #1F6E85 → Ink · Pulse: Cloud / sig on light · Never: mistaken for platform blue

Note the atom: the bird’s eye, the bloom’s center, and the compass’s hub are all the same Cloud void that lives inside the cross and at the heart of the care circle. Every mark in the company orbits the same point.

Every product inherits
  • The neutrals — Cloud, Mist, Slate, Ink, exactly as specified in v3.
  • The type system — Newsreader · Inter · JetBrains Mono, same roles.
  • The pulse line — one geometry, two inks. The platform draws it in Vital; products draw it in Cloud on dark surfaces and in their signature on light ones. What’s shared is the shape and the glow — it’s how a Wren parent recognizes Iris on sight, in any color.
  • The cross — on co-branded and scan surfaces, in Deep Blue, always.
  • The verification language — the strip, the mono, the audit trail.
Every product adds — and only adds
  • One signature color — from the hours-of-the-day system at anchor depth, doing exactly the Deep Blue role inside its product. On any co-branded or institutional surface, Deep Blue outranks every signature.
  • One Depth and one Ambient instance — the dark formula (signature → Ink, 150°, plus its ·Live variant) and the light one (signature dissolved over Cloud, one white radial, one sibling whisper ≤10%). Daylight is shared as-is.
  • One figurative mark — a bird, a bloom, a compass: drawn on the cross’s grid, single weight, single color, legible at 16px. Never an icon set.
  • Its own voice warmth — inside the platform’s rules: specific, confident, plain, quiet.
  • Nothing else. New gradients, new faces, and new layouts are not product expression. They’re drift.
09 · The Imagery

Two lanes: the family, and the science.

Imagery runs in two lanes that never mix on one surface. Lane one is human: real families, documentary style, available light, the camera at kid height — always in the Daylight duotone. Lane two is scientific: abstraction of what the platform actually does — information, connection, verification — rendered as minimal geometry, never as stocky lab clichés.

Lane one · shoot: mornings and backpacks, kitchen-table setups, a tag being clipped on, grandparents learning the app, the school run.
Lane one · never: hospitals, scrubs, stethoscopes, stock smiles, fear-bait, or AI-generated people. The product exists so life stays ordinary.
Treatment: Daylight duotone at the locked recipe. No other filters, no B&W, no saturation pushes.
Type on photos: one caption or one short headline in Cloud, maximum. Never body text, never the lockup.
Consent: real families only, with signed releases. Kids’ faces only with explicit parent approval — hands and details are always safe.
The test: if the image would work in a pharma brochure, reshoot it.

Lane two: the constellation.

The system’s one illustration device is a working diagram of the product: the care circle as orbits. The kid holds the center; family keeps the inner ring; school and community hold the outer — rings of protection, drawn in the system’s own ring-and-dot geometry. Every few seconds a ripple leaves the center: the scan notification, propagating through the circle. It isn’t decoration. It’s the product’s core loop, running. Tap it.

Construction: the kid at center, family on the inner orbit, school and community on the outer. Nodes are the system’s ring-and-dot; links are 1px Cloud hairlines; exactly one node lives in Vital.
The ripple: the scan notification, drawn. It travels center-outward on Depth · Live surfaces only, never faster than calm, never more than one system at a time.
Where it lives: Depth heroes, empty states, the loading moment, the pitch deck’s network-effect slide. Static versions (no ripple) may sit on Cloud at low opacity as section backdrops.
Never: on the scan view, over photography, or with more than seven nodes — past seven it stops being a family and starts being a diagram.
10 · What We Don’t Do

The brand is also the refusals.

Most brand damage is additive — one more color, one more effect, one more exclamation mark. These eight refusals are load-bearing. When in doubt, subtract.

No atmosphere on the scan view

No gradients, no photography, no marketing, no brand story. Flat Cloud, Ink type, one alert, tap-to-call. The page is a tool, and its beauty is that it works.

No eighth color, no freelance gradients

The set is closed: Cloud, Mist, Slate, Deep Blue, Ink, Vital, functional Alert, and one anchor signature per product. Every dark atmosphere in the company ends in Ink at 150°; every light one dissolves into Cloud with one white radial. A gradient that does neither isn’t ours.

No red outside emergencies

#B3261E means “a life is on the line.” It never marks errors, deletions, or destructive buttons — those use Ink and copy. Scarcity is what keeps the alert loud.

No fear marketing

No ER statistics as hooks, no “would a stranger know how to save YOUR child?” We sell peace of mind by demonstrating competence, never by manufacturing dread.

No generated-brand tells

No glassmorphism, no purple-blue SaaS gradients, no emoji as icons, no floating card shadows, no three-column feature grids with stroke icons. If a template would do it, we don’t.

No cuteness near an emergency

Product warmth lives in onboarding and notifications. The moment content touches allergy, dosage, or contacts, the voice goes clinical and the serif steps aside.

No unverifiable claims

“Trusted by thousands” is banned until it’s true and countable. We show verification strips, scan events, and named community partners instead of adjectives.

No second heartbeat

One pulse per surface. One Vital moment per screen. One serif headline, one italic word, one primary CTA. The system’s power is that its emphasis is believable — a monitor showing two heartbeats isn’t reassuring, it’s alarming.

Someone just viewed Eli’s profile
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